United States Currently Has Debt Load of $18.14 Trillion

The US economy finally seemed to turn a corner in the second half of 2014 and the major market indexes turned in another positive year.

That's the good news.

The bad news? The United States added another $790 BILLION to its debt load last year.

As of the end of 2014, the United States reported a total debt load of $18,141,444,135,563.30.

Of this total, $13.02 trillion was in the form of "public debt" (that is, debt held by individual investors, foreign governments, pension funds, etc). The rest, $5.117 trillion, was in the form of "intragovernmental holdings", which is money that the federal government owes to programs such as Social Security.